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New CA Bill Targets Prop 47:  California lawmakers have introduced new legislation calling for harsher penalties for repeat offenders under Proposition 47, the 2014 voter-approved measure that downgraded several felonies to misdemeanors.  Janelle Bludau of Your Central Valley reports that Assemblyman Jim Patterson's bill says that if a criminal receives three charges in three years for a crime classified as a misdemeanor under Prop. 47, a judge can charge them with a felony.  The bill also states that the theft of a gun is an automatic felony, regardless of its value.  The bill will be introduced to the Assembly Public Safety Committee next Tuesday for approval.  It must pass legislature and the governor's desk before appearing on the 2018 ballot.

Official says Released Gitmo Prisoners have killed Americans:  An Obama administration envoy for closing Guantanamo Bay admitted Wednesday that Americans have died as a result of prisoners being released from the facility.  Susan Crabtree of the Washington Examiner reports that Paul Lewis, the Department of Defense's special envoy for Guantanamo Closure, confirmed before a House Foreign Affairs Committee that some Americans have been killed by at least one released detainee, though he would not divulge details in an "unclassified setting."  At current, 91 detainees remain at Gitmo; 36 have been cleared for release, 10 are in the middle of a military commission trial and the rest have been "deemed unworthy of release."

Credible Fear Loophole Gives Illegals from Terrorist Hubs Asylum:  Illegal immigrants from terrorist hub nations are exploiting the same amnesty loophole as those coming from Central America, claiming they have a "credible fear of persecution" in order to receive amnesty and remain in the U.S.  Bob Price of Breitbart reports that under the Obama administration's 2014 Priority Enforcement Program (PEP), once illegal immigrants claim "credible fear of persecution" at the border, they are immediately released "with no appointments or expectation that they will ever have to show up for a hearing" before a judge.  National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd says that while he believes a small percentage of illegal immigrants from terrorist hubs like Egypt, Somalia, Pakistan, Iran and Syria actually have a credible fear, the majority of those arrested are telling agents that "they are coming because they know they will be released."


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